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A. Y. Jackson was an avid, often intrepid explorer of Canada’s vast landscape. He travelled widely until the age of 83, chronicling the land on his sketching trips. He visited the Rockies, the Arctic, and remote terrain few artists explored. Yet, virtually each spring, he ensured he was in his home province of Quebec, where the heart of his work was based.
In the late spring of 1961, Jackson embarked on a sketching trip with Maurice Haycock, this time to a northern region of Quebec, near the Labrador border. Painting, as he typically did, en plein air, the artist notes: “Schefferville, June 6, 1961, cold windy day”, and draws the viewer into a small part of his experience of the land.
